Five Dot Ranch plots two new meat-centric restaurants at Napa’s Oxbow Public Market

Connecting the dots between butchery and restaurant with Five Dot expansion

Customers craving Five Dot Ranch meats can find it at top Bay Area restaurants, or, since Jan. 2008, have been able to buy the cuts direct from the butcher shop at Oxbow Public Market in Napa.

By the end of next month, restaurant and butchery will become one, with the planned opening of Five Dot Ranch Cookhouse and Five Dot Ranch Smokehouse, two new eateries at the market.

First, there’s Five Dot Ranch Cookhouse, offering full-service dining with beer, wine, and a to-go menu. It takes over the former production space of Three Twins Ice Cream, vacated after Twins’ owner Neal Gottlieb opened a factory in Petaluma.

Second, there’s Five Dot Ranch Smokehouse, setting up on the Oxbow River Deck with a giant smoker and al fresco dining. Think of it as a semi-permanent pop-up, driven by the weather with menus posted weekly on Facebook.

The two operations join the micro-café that’s part of the butchery, but has previously focused just on casual sandwiches and hotdogs.

According to Five Dot owner Loretta Swickard, Cookhouse will include a full kitchen, counter seating for dine-in, a dedicated take-out area, and grab ‘n’ go selections. The kitchen work will be done by chef Michael Hanaghan, who for a decade worked with the Thomas Keller Group, among other chef jobs in Portland and the North Bay, before joining Five Dot as head butcher/manager in March, 2012.

The breakfast, lunch and dinner menus, naturally, are beefy. Some items include:

A breakfast rib sandwich on a bacon pecan waffle topped with a fried egg and Noble maple syrup